Late Night Photosby Martin Andersen

Each tree moves us through a colour story pink to red; red, terracotta, orange to apricot; orange to yellow; lime, green to deep sea green; teal, turquoise to aqua; blue to violet-blue; cool purple to warm purple, and lastly plum, burgundy to pink. The colours from the Central Park Mall logo were used strongly: pink, green, purple.

STATISTICS

There are over 80 different colours of yarn, the total weighing over 9kg.

Each tree has 8-10 shades with more colours on the matching mandalas.

It took 5 people over 25 hours to wind the yarn for the project.

Yarn has been sourced from Australia, the UK, the USA, China and Turkey.

Myself, Martin Andersen and Cat Ayers knitted the bases over two weeks.

80 recycled CDs were used to make the mandalas.

We created 3 hanging crocheted mandalas per tree, each with 2 mandalas and 2 CDs back to back. These take over 1 hour each to crochet and sew and were made by myself and Karen Stephen. 16 extra mandalas for replacement were also made.

5 dozen love bomb hearts for the trees took over 12 hours to be crocheted by hand with 36 being sewn onto the trunks.

A team of helpers installed half the project on one day; 3 more days were needed to install the knitted ribbons and mandalas.